Recent Highlights


Caleb et al. (2024) An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period

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Wang et al. (2021) Discovery of ASKAP J173608.2-321635 as a Highly Polarized Transient Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder

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Dobie et al. (2022) A comprehensive search for the radio counterpart of GW190814 with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

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Recent Publications:


Total papers: 46 (last updated 2024-06-13)
Total citations: 331
H-index: 13

Publications via ADS Library.

  1. Dykaar, Drout, Gaensler et al., 2024, An Untargeted Search for Radio-Emitting Tidal Disruption Events in the VAST Pilot Survey, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2406.08371, arXiv:2406.08371, DOI:
  2. Caleb, Lenc, Kaplan et al., 2024, An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period, Nature Astronomy, DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02277-w
  3. Rose, Murphy, Driessen et al., 2024, ASKAP radio detections of possible candidate BD-21 1074 for GRB 240514E, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16628, 1, DOI:
  4. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2024, ASKAP VAST radio detections of Swift J151857.0-572147, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16617, 1, DOI:
  5. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Dobie et al., 2024, LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240422ed: Archival radio detection of EP240426a, GRB Coordinates Network, 36329, 1, DOI:
  6. Pritchard, Murphy, Heald et al., 2024, Multi-epoch sampling of the radio star population with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529, 1258, arXiv:2312.11031, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae127
  7. Driessen, Pritchard, Murphy et al., 2024, The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: properties of radio stars at megahertz to gigahertz frequencies, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2404.07418, arXiv:2404.07418, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.07418
  8. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Dobie et al., 2024, Rapid late time radio flux density changes of the tidal disruption event ASASSN-15oi 9 years after disruption, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16502, 1, DOI:
  9. Zic, Wang, Lenc et al., 2024, Discovery of radio eclipses from 4FGL J1646.5-4406: a new candidate redback pulsar binary, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528, 5730, arXiv:2312.00261, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae033
  10. Wang, Kaplan, Sengar et al., 2024, Discovery of a Young, Highly Scattered Pulsar PSR J1032-5804 with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 961, 175, arXiv:2311.14880, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0fe8
  11. Sfaradi, Beniamini, Horesh et al., 2024, An off-axis relativistic jet seen in the long lasting delayed radio flare of the TDE AT 2018hyz, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 7672, arXiv:2308.01965, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3717
  12. Dobie, Rose, Kaplan, and Sivakoff, 2023, ASKAP detection of classical nova V6598 Sgr 2023, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16383, 1, DOI:
  13. An, Lao, Xu et al., 2023, An optimized transient detection pipeline for the ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526, 1809, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2809
  14. Anumarlapudi, Ehlke, Jones et al., 2023, Characterizing Pulsars Detected in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey, The Astrophysical Journal, 956, 28, arXiv:2308.00100, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aceb5d
  15. Wang, Murphy, Lenc et al., 2023, Radio variable and transient sources on minute time-scales in the ASKAP pilot surveys, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 5661, arXiv:2306.04263, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1727
  16. Leung, Murphy, Lenc et al., 2023, A matched-filter approach to radio variability and transients: searching for orphan afterglows in the VAST Pilot Survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 4029, arXiv:2306.00447, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1670
  17. Rose, Pritchard, Murphy et al., 2023, Periodic Radio Emission from the T8 Dwarf WISE J062309.94-045624.6, The Astrophysical Journal, 951, L43, arXiv:2306.15219, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ace188
  18. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2023, ASKAP observations of the black-hole X-ray candidate MAXI J1810-222, The Astronomer's Telegram, 16136, 1, DOI:
  19. Gulati, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2023, Classical novae in the ASKAP pilot surveys, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 40, e025, arXiv:2303.17759, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2023.21
  20. Dobie, Pritchard, Wang et al., 2023, Radio transients and variables in the tenth Deeper, Wider, Faster observing run, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 4684, arXiv:2211.07049, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3731
  21. Anumarlapudi, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2023, ASKAP radio detections following the recent brightening of the Nova V1716 Sco., The Astronomer's Telegram, 16155, 1, DOI:
  22. Wang, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2022, A pilot ASKAP survey for radio transients towards the Galactic Centre, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516, 5972, arXiv:2209.02352, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2542
  23. Rigney, Ramsay, Carley et al., 2022, Searching for stellar flares from low-mass stars using ASKAP and TESS, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516, 540, arXiv:2207.00405, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2143
  24. Pintaldi, Stewart, O'Brien, Kaplan, and Murphy, 2022, A Scalable Transient Detection Pipeline for the Australian SKA Pathfinder VAST Survey, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 532, 333, arXiv:2101.05898, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2101.05898
  25. Wang, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2022, Discovery of PSR J0523-7125 as a Circularly Polarized Variable Radio Source in the Large Magellanic Cloud, The Astrophysical Journal, 930, 38, arXiv:2205.00622, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac61dc
  26. Gulati, Murphy, Wang, Leung, and Lenc, 2022, Dimming of classical nova V1369 Cen (Nova Centauri 2013) from ATCA and ASKAP radio observations, The Astronomer's Telegram, 15310, 1, DOI:
  27. Dobie, Stewart, Hotokezaka et al., 2022, A comprehensive search for the radio counterpart of GW190814 with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 3794, arXiv:2109.08452, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3628
  28. Gulati, Murphy, Wang et al., 2022, ATCA and ASKAP radio observations of classical nova YZ Ret, The Astronomer's Telegram, 15264, 1, DOI:
  29. Dobie, Kaplan, Sivakoff et al., 2021, Archival ASKAP observations of the candidate counterpart to IceCube-211116A, The Astronomer's Telegram, 15049, 1, DOI:
  30. Wang, Kaplan, Murphy et al., 2021, Discovery of ASKAP J173608.2-321635 as a Highly Polarized Transient Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 45, arXiv:2109.00652, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360
  31. Murphy, Kaplan, Stewart et al., 2021, The ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Pilot Survey, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38, e054, arXiv:2108.06039, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2021.44
  32. Leung, Murphy, Ghirlanda et al., 2021, A search for radio afterglows from gamma-ray bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503, 1847, arXiv:2102.01948, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab326
  33. Wang, Tuntsov, Murphy et al., 2021, ASKAP observations of multiple rapid scintillators reveal a degrees-long plasma filament, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 3294, arXiv:2101.06048, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab139
  34. Pritchard, Murphy, Zic et al., 2021, A circular polarization survey for radio stars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 5438, arXiv:2102.01801, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab299
  35. Wang, Murphy, Kaplan, Bannister, and Dobie, 2020, The capability of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder to detect prompt radio bursts from neutron star mergers, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, e051, arXiv:2010.09949, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2020.42
  36. Zic, Murphy, Lynch et al., 2020, A Flare-type IV Burst Event from Proxima Centauri and Implications for Space Weather, The Astrophysical Journal, 905, 23, arXiv:2012.04642, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abca90
  37. Dobie, Murphy, Leung et al., 2020, GRB 200405B: ATCA follow-up and ASKAP limits on pre-burst radio emission, GRB Coordinates Network, 27516, 1, DOI:
  38. Dobie, Stewart, Murphy et al., 2019, An ASKAP Search for a Radio Counterpart to the First High-significance Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger LIGO/Virgo S190814bv, The Astrophysical Journal, 887, L13, arXiv:1910.13647, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab59db
  39. Kaplan, Dai, Lenc et al., 2019, Serendipitous Discovery of PSR J1431-6328 as a Highly Polarized Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder, The Astrophysical Journal, 884, 96, arXiv:1908.03163, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab397f
  40. Zic, Stewart, Lenc et al., 2019, ASKAP detection of periodic and elliptically polarized radio pulses from UV Ceti, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488, 559, arXiv:1906.06570, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1684
  41. Dobie, Kaplan, Stewart et al., 2019, ASKAP observations of blazars possibly associated with neutrino events IC190730A and IC190704A, The Astronomer's Telegram, 12981, 1, DOI:
  42. Dobie, Murphy, Kaplan et al., 2019, An optimised gravitational wave follow-up strategy with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 36, e019, arXiv:1903.01481, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2019.9
  43. Bhandari, Bannister, Murphy et al., 2018, A pilot survey for transients and variables with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 1784, arXiv:1804.11048, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1157
  44. Hobbs, Heywood, Bell et al., 2016, A pilot ASKAP survey of radio transient events in the region around the intermittent pulsar PSR J1107-5907, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456, 3948, arXiv:1512.02702, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2893
  45. Murphy, Chatterjee, Kaplan et al., 2013, VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 30, e006, arXiv:1207.1528, DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2012.006
  46. Banyer, Murphy, and VAST Collaboration, 2012, VAST: A Real-time Pipeline for Detecting Radio Transients and Variables on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Telescope, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI, 461, 725, arXiv:1201.3130, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1201.3130
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The VAST survey goals are described in Murphy et al. (2013), “VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients

For a full list of VAST-related publications see our VAST ADS Library.